Running OpenVPN on a hosted server and internally on a Rasperry Pi

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:11:00 +0100

Introduction

Motivation

How about a secure access from outside into the own home network? So we can maintain machines, change configurations, getting files, .. from where ever we are. For this we let a VPN tunnel be established between a local RPi in our network to a hosted server. If this hosted server that offers a web based console we only need a web browser to access our own resources at home.

Replace or keep existing configuration files during Linux updates/upgrades

Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:03:00 +0100

During updating/upgrading a fresh Moebius installation on a RaspberryPi with

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

it brought this question:

Configuration file `/etc/issue'
==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : start a shell to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** issue (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?

The default hint not to do that is mainly for longer running installations to avoid an overwriting of existing configuration files. In case of a fresh installation you should confirm with Y.

Raspberry Pi on Marko Apfel

Running OpenVPN on a hosted server and internally on a Rasperry Pi

Introduction

Motivation

Replace or keep existing configuration files during Linux updates/upgrades